Aha! Found them! These are the ornament sized versions of the hats I showed you over the last few days. Am I feeling disgustingly smug about being able to lay hands on something the size of an egg that I haven't touched in two years? Oh yes very much so!⁠ Am I also smug about those tassels? Because tassels really are the perfect way to hang ornaments on a tree or tuck them under the ribbon on a present? And because these are just particularly perfect tassels? Yup, yup that too. ⁠ What can I say. I'm prone to smugness. [...]

For anyone wondering, these are people-sized versions of the tiny ornament hats in the Bedeck pattern from a few years ago. Well, baby-sized. I had a couple folks in my life who were in need of baby hats, and those were the perfect thing to use for them! I might possibly be doing something nifty with the pattern shortly. I have one thing in mind for mailing list folks and a little something extra for patreon folks, so do keep an eye on your inbox in the next little while if you're on either of those!

Final round of the gratuitous encouragement to block your knits! Ok, full disclosure, this one involved a slightly more complicated procedure than the first two. The white dots on this have a tendency to sort of sink down into the orange fabric, and I didn't want them to do that, so I threaded some scrap yarn onto a blunt needle and ran it under the dots before I got the hat wet. Then it went in the sink, got squeezed out in a towel, and set on a bowl to dry. Once it was dry, I pulled the scrap yarn [...]

Blocking encouragement, round two! Once again, I know I can't make you block, but I can totally show you before and after pictures of my own stuff and sort of hope you decide it's worth it! Just like last time, I tossed this in the sink, let it get absolutely soaked (either leave it a long time or squeeze it underwater a few times to help the water get all the way to the middle of the yarn), rolled it up in a towel to get the extra water out, and let it dry. But this time, instead of letting [...]

So look, I fully acknowledge that I cannot make you do anything. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to even if I could. But I can maybe encourage you to block your knits by showing you what my knits look like before and after blocking. One picture shows this fresh off the needles, the other after the laziest of lazy blocks. I quite literally left it in the sink for a while (mostly because I forgot it was in there, if I'd wanted to be faster I'd have just squeezed it a few times under water to make sure it was [...]

Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about knitting! These three hats are all set to come out early next year (am I in an embroidery phase, yes, yes I apparently am). And then there's something else that's somewhere between a hat and a magic trick that's been quietly percolating in the back of my mind for a while now that I can't wait to start sharing with you just as soon as I feel brave enough to tackle it in public. Oh and I might accidentally have ordered, um, a skein or two of yarn over the weekend that might be [...]